Month: June 2023

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre said Wednesday that she saw her right arm “get blown open in two places” by a gunman and cried “Mommy” after her 97-year-old mother was shot and killed by her side in the nation’s deadliest attack on Jewish people. Andrea Wedner was the government’s last

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Kosovo police have reported that three officers patrolling a northern area bordering Serbia are missing and may likely be kidnapped by Serbs. Serbian authorities said Wednesday that they arrested them on inside Serbia near the border. The latest incident sharply raises tensions between

By MARC LEVY Associated Press Pennsylvania will truck in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets to help quickly rebuild a collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia and crews will work 24 hours a day until they can reopen the critical commercial artery, officials said Wednesday. Instead of rebuilding the overpass right away, crews will

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Gambling giant MGM Resorts International says it did nothing wrong in its dealings with a New York City man who accuses it of preying on his gambling addiction with repeated cash bonuses intended to keep him gambling. In court papers, MGM says Sam Antar, a

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles demanding a liberalization of the abortion law are protesting in Warsaw and other Polish cities after a woman who was five months pregnant died of sepsis. It was the latest such death since a tightening of Poland’s abortion law more than two years ago. The

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two firms have been tasked with investigating the partial collapse of a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, that left three dead, many injured and dozens displaced. Davenport officials say Wednesday they’ve hired White Birch Group, LLC, and SOCOTEC Engineering to complete a cause and